That Girl and Phil: An Insider Tells What Life Is Really Like in the Marlo Thomas/Phil Donahue Household

When London-born Desmond Atholl, a majordomo for some of the world's most affluent families, accepted a post with power-couple Marlo Thomas and Phil Donohue, he certainly never imagined that it would prove to be the greatest challenge of his career. Supervising their New York penthouse, Connecticut country estate, forty-foot yacht, and sizable staff, he found his days filled with hilarious mishaps, exaggerated misunderstandings, and almost unbelievable escapades of a crazy upstairs-downstairs comedy. Now, Desmond tells the story that virtually wrote itself - the collected adventures of his frantic life with TV's That Girl, the self-absorbed perfectionist Marlo Thomas, and her meat-and-potatoes King of the Talk Shoes husband, Phil Donohue. With dry wit and a droll sense of humor, he recounts this uproarious real-life sitcom.